pyreadr.custom_errors.LibrdataError: Unable to read from file for large RDS files

[pty0111]

Is there an upper limit on the size of RDS files that can be loaded using pyreadr?
When reading an RDS file of a small matrix, the code works well, but when reading large matrices (>10GB in size), I get the following error:
pyreadr.custom_errors.LibrdataError: Unable to read from file

[ofajardo]

I think there should not be such a limit. In addition you should probably get a memory error instead of a unable to read from file error, so I suspect that there is something else happening with that file. IS the file something you have created yourself with R? or is it something somebody else generated? If somebody else I think as mentioned before the problem is something else besides the size. If you did create it, please share a simplified code to reproduce the issue.

[pty0111]

This is a matrix that I generated from my data. It is a 31595 by 39643 matrix saved using saveRDS(my.mtx, file = "expr.rds") command. When I subset to fewer rows, e.g., saveRDS(my.mtx[1:5000,], file = "expr.rds"), pyreadr works without any issue.
My pyreadr version is 0.4.9

[elaude]

I can confirm this bug exists. I submitted a fix to librdata (WizardMac/librdata#49), please consider updating once it is merged.

[ofajardo]

Sure, I will update here once the PR is merged into librdata